Northern Ivili Language

Ivili
Şotī Ekuşemīn
Pronunciation	/aɪdʒaɪlaɪ/
Native to	Flatstone Northern Ivili Clan Southern Ivili Clan
Region	Şotīko Archipelago in Olivacia
Ethnicity	Stonish
Native speakers	L1: 4,500,000+ (2018) L2: 4,335,000+ FL: 25,000+
Language family	Ivili
Official status
Official language in	Flatstone Northern Ivili Clan Southern Ivili Clan Taverkny Clan
Recognised minority language in	Ou Clan
Language codes
ISO 639-2	IVL
ISO 639-3	IVL
Linguasphere	TBA
Distribution of the language throughout Flatstone   Absolute majority   >50% of native speakers

TBA

History

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Geographic distribution

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Classification

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Regional variants

  Regional dialects

  Southern Ivili language

TBA

Phonology

Overview

Standard Ivili has traditionally operated under a Verb–subject–object word order (VSO), and this has been true for the entirety of the languages existence. It is also worth noting that in Ivili, Possession is typically ordered possessee before possessor. The Ivili language has five grammatical cases, and typically relies heavily on context to determine singularity, plurality, and depending on the sentence, tenses. Ivili has just seventeen phonemes, making the language the simplest of the four that are native to the Şotīko archipelago.

Alphabet

The transition from a Runic alphabet to a Latin script took place over the span of roughly a decade, likely beginning sometime in the mid nineteenth century. However, the Latin script wouldn't be officially adopted by the Kingdom of Flatstone until 1911, when it was standardized. Despite this, the Latin alphabet had risen in popularity on it's own, first being used en masse by the merchant class of Flatstone at the turn of the 19th century, and being spread through relatives via letters, newspaper articles, etc. Today, the Ivili alphabet consists of fifteen letters:

Ā ā	B b	K k	D d	E e	G g	Ī ī	J j
L l	M m	N n	O o	P p	Ş ş	U u

It should also be mentioned that there are adaptations of the standard Ivili alphabet (Most notably the Southern Ivili language) that include the voiced dental fricative ("ð"), the voiceless alveolar plosive ("t"), and the voiced labiodental fricative ("v") to compensate for the fact that some regional accents replace the pronunciation for the letter "J" in the Ivili alphabet with either of these three phonemes. However, this addition to the alphabet isn't federally standardized and is only recognized by a few localities.

Order	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Majuscule	Ā	B	K	D	E	G	Ī	J	L	M	N	O	P	Ş	U
Minuscule	ā	b	k	d	e	g	ī	j	l	m	n	o	p	ş	u
IPA Sound	e͡i	b	k	d	e	a͡i	g	j	l	m	n	o	p	ʃ	u

Phonetics

Place Manner	Labial					Coronal										Dorsal					Laryngeal
	Bilabial		Labiodental		Linguolabial		Dental		Alveolar		Postal-veolar		Retroflex		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Pharyngeal		Glottal
Nasal		m (m)								n (n)
Plosive	p (p)	b (b)							t (t)	d (d)							k (k)	g (g)
Sibilant affricate
Sibilant fricative									s (s)		ʃ (ш)
Non-sibilant fricative
Approximant																j (j)
Tap/Flap
Trill
Latelar approximant										l (l)

Tongue position	Front		Near-front		Central		Near-back		Back
Close										u (u)
Near-close
Close-mid	e (є)									o (o)
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Diphthong	e͡i (ei) ~ a͡i (ai)